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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

Steve Blank

He presented to organizations in the Netherlands, Chile, Spain, the UK (Ministry of Defense and the BBC), and aerospace companies. Customer & Stakeholder Discovery: getting outside the building, city and country: why and how? The end result was a truly ambitious, unique, and international set of curated Wicked problems.

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Panic at the Pivot – Aligning Incentives By Burning the Boats

Steve Blank

In less than three years from the day it started, the company had pivoted its technology process, sales had done a masterful job of Customer Discovery and had found a sweet spot in the market and its fabrication plants were busy turning out as many transistors and diodes as they could make. What could go wrong? Burn The Boats.

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Twitter Link Roundup #152 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Small Business and Startups: Slice & Dice Your Customer Service Data | crowdSPRING Blog - [link]. Is The Only Purpose of Customer Service To Change Feelings? How Customers evaluate your product | StartupCFO – [link]. Using mTurk to interview 100 customers (in 4 hours) | Customer Development Labs - [link].

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This Weekend

Startup Lessons Learned

Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. rfan622 How Listening to Customers Helped Us Raise $700K in Seed Funding Mariya Genzel. One caveat: if you come by, you are automatically volunteering to be subjected to some intense customer development. Also: booze. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets

Startup Lessons Learned

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. Special thanks to our streaming sponsor Justin.tv for handling the actual broadcasts. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Jason: So how many of those 20,000 people are paying customers? Edwin: Okay, I have different types of customers.